Closed Bug 89297 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

[RFE]site-specific enabling/disabling Javascript (or js manager)

Categories

(Core :: Security, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Security
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86932

People

(Reporter: sami.makinen, Assigned: security-bugs)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062815

Javascript can often be a real pain in the a$$, but some sites really require it
for full functionality. It is annoying to constantly switch it on and off, so a
"disable Javascript for this site" switch would be very nice.

Disabling javascript also tends to disable any ad banners on a site, which is
definitely a bonus. No more annoying "punch the monkey" ads...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page
2. Observe dynamic Javascript based ad banner
3. Disable Javascript
4. Reload
5. Observe nice, fast-loading ad-free page. Yay!
-> Security

Related bugs:

bug 38966 make a user interface for configurable security policies
          http://mozilla.org/projects/security/components/configPolicy.html

bug 86932 fix per-site js disabling in configurable security policies

bug 38521 a toolbar button to disable javascript for current window and windows 
          opened from current window (or bug 20826, or bug 87538)
Assignee: rogerl → mstoltz
Component: Javascript Engine → Security: General
QA Contact: pschwartau → ckritzer
Thanks for the research, Jesse.

"Punch-the-monkey" is a very appropriate description.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38521 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Punch the monkey (or the more cruel shock the monkey) are actually done with
Java, not JavaScript...
while that may be true, the ad is still loaded using JavaScript in 99% of the
cases I've run into it... so disabling JavaScript disables all ads, including
Java, Flash, mgif, gif etc
Marking VERIFIED DUPLICATE.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Depends on: 86932
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Summary: Make enabling/disabling Javascript site-specific please (request, no bug involved) → site-specific enabling/disabling Javascript (or js manager)
Umm this is not a dup of bug 38521. That is about a toolbar for the pref, this
is about a front end for bug 86932 like image manager and cookie manager
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: site-specific enabling/disabling Javascript (or js manager) → [RFE]site-specific enabling/disabling Javascript (or js manager)
*** Bug 90309 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Whoops, where did that come from?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86932 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
basic, did you mean to change the platform and OS to All? please comment in
bug 90363. If so, please let us know which build you were using. We're having
a problem with mozilla corrupting form data.
Marking VERIFIED DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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